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....~^^£## ####.~~ Fermi'S Paradox ~~.#### ##£^^~....
....~^^£@@ #...~~~~~~~~...# @@£^^~....
.~~^^£@#@@ @@#@£^^~~.
..~~^^££#@ On Earth (The Planet Where I Live) A @#££^^~~..
.~~^^£@#@# Lot Of Us Have Antennas On Our Houses #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@# Or Balconies, We Have Built Large #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^^^££# Antennas For Larger Bandwith, We Have #££^^^^~~.
.~~^^^^^@@ Build Specialized Antennaes For @@^^^^^~~.
.....~~^@@ Specific Wavelengths (And Sent Them @@^~~.....
......~^£# Into Orbit), We'Ve Built Large As Fuck #£^~......
.~~^^£@@## Antenna Arrays ##@@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@@@# We'Ve Virtually Built An Antenna With A #@@@£^^~~.
.~~~~~^£#@ Dish As Large As Earth. @#£^~~~~~.
.~~^^£@#@# #@#@£^^~~.
......~^£@ We'Ve Learned About Our Position In The @£^~......
~~^^£@#@## Solar System, Our Solar Systems ##@#@£^^~~
.~~^^£@#@@ Placement In The Galaxy, And Our @@#@£^^~~.
.....~~^^@ Galaxys Placement In The Local Cluster, @^^~~.....
.~~^^£@#@# And ~Our~ Local Clusters Place In The #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@@ Grand Scheme Of Things @@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^££@@# #@@££^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@# And We'Re Moving Around The Sun At #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@@## Velocity And The Suns Moving Around The ##@@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@# Center Of The Galaxy At Velocity And #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@@ The Galaxy Is Moving Toward Andromeda @@#@£^^~~.
......~~^@ And We'Re Both Moving Anticlockwise @^~~......
...~~~~^£@ Around The Galaxy. And We As A Species @£^~~~~...
.~~^^£@#@# Have Learned To Take All That In Account #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@# #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^£@#@## And Despite All This, Despite All Our ##@#@£^~~.
~~^^£@#@## (Cliche) Beaming Of Fucking Stellar ##@#@£^^~~
.~~^^££££# Radio Programmes Out In Fucking Space #££££^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@# At The Speed Of Light (Light Is Our #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@# Medium! Goodspeed You, Black Emperor!), #@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@@ Despite Ghosts Helping And The @@#@£^^~~.
.~~^^£@#@@ Collective Consciousness Lowpass @@#@£^^~~.
.....~^£@# Filtering, Despite Our Very Obvious #@£^~.....
....~~^^£@ Beaming Of All Our Secrets In Every @£^^~~....
.~~^^£@#@@ Direction Known To Us, @@#@£^^~~.
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.~~^^£@#@@ No . One . Has . Answered @@#@£^^~~.
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.~~^^^^^£# ####.~~ Fermi'S Paradox ~~.#### #£^^^^^~~.
~~^^£@#@## #...~~~~~~~~...# ##@#@£^^~~
.~~^^£@#@# #@#@£^^~~.
.~~~~~^££@ So Why Is That? @££^~~~~~.
....~~^@## ##@^~~....
......~^£# Most Opponents To Intelligent Life In #£^~......
.~~^^^^£## The Universe Say It'S Because You Need ##£^^^^~~.
.~~^^£@@## A Class One-Or-The-Other Star And The ##@@£^^~~.
.....~~^£@ Planet Needs To Be At A See-And-So @£^~~.....
....~~~^^@ Distance Away From The Star (Like There @^^~~~....
...~~^^@@@ Has To Be A Planet!) @@@^^~~...
.~~^^£#@## ##@#£^^~~.
..~~^^£@@@ But Really Isn'T That Keeping The @@@£^^~~..
.~~^^£@### Definition Of Life Really Lax? ###@£^^~~.
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.~~^^@#@## I Think Everyone Agrees That We Have No ##@#@^^~~.
.~~^^£@### Idea What We'Re Doing (And It Probably ###@£^^~~.
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......~^£# ####.~~ Fermi'S Paradox ~~.#### #£^~......
.....~~^@@ #...~~~~~~~~...# @@^~~.....
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.~~^^£@#@# I'M Gonna Go Smoke My Third Cigarette #@#@£^^~~.
......~^£# This Year And Try To Snatch Some Beers #£^~......
.~~^^£@#@# From The Local Beer Thing #@#@£^^~~.
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